[Times Live]– Libya on Thursday freed 88 Islamists and announced it will demolish Abu Slim prison, notorious for what human rights groups say was a 1996 massacre in which more than 1,000 prisoners were killed.
The Gaddafi Foundation, headed by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam, confirmed the planned closure of Abu [...]
[The Tripoli Post]– At this very moment, there are 1,100 fighters who have laid down their arms in Agades (in Niger). They are listening to us right now and waiting for me to order them to enter Niger in peace. I tell them: ‘Go ahead and enter Niger in peace’,” the President of the African [...]
[News24]– Muammar Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez urged nearly 30 leaders from throughout Africa and South America on Saturday to form a strong intercontinental alliance to make the two regions a new global power.
The Libyan leader, on his first visit to the Americas, called for the two regions to become a political and [...]
Jack Straw has reignited the row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber by admitting for the first time that trade and oil were an essential part of the Government’s decision to include him in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya.
The Justice Secretary said he was unapologetic about including Abdelbaset al Megrahi in the agreement, [...]
Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live.
Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish Government [...]
Alex Salmond’s Scottish government is facing an embarrassing vote of censure after the crisis over its controversial decision to free the Lockerbie bomber deepened today.
Furious opposition leaders have forced Salmond to hold a parliamentary vote next week – which his government is expected to lose heavily – over the decision to send Abdelbaset al-Megrahi home to [...]
The Business Secretary denied that the Government had done a deal to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who was convicted of the 1988 terrorist atrocity that claimed 270 lives. However, his claims were contradicted by Saif Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, in a conversation with Megrahi as the pair flew home from [...]
Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz has apologised in Tripoli for the arrest in 2008 of one of the sons of the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.
Two Swiss businessmen currently detained in Libya would be released “soon”, according to a finance ministry statement.
“We are apologising for what happened to Hannibal Gaddafi and the two sides agreed to form [...]
The terminally ill Libyan convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has flown home from Scotland to a joyous reception after being freed on compassionate grounds despite fierce US opposition.
Ignoring a US warning against a “hero’s welcome”, hundreds of young people waving Libyan and Scottish flags greeted the aircraft carrying Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as it landed [...]
